Ring the Alarm

13741131:InspiredMedia said:
what did you think?

[video]https://video.grindnetworks.com/library/videos/58100771e3d4019c772dccc1[/video]
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About halfway through. I can't stand your media player. But the skiing is sick. Music is great. Editing is good.

I'm just wondering how many kids I will see skiing with their coat open, and no goggles now. On a pow day.
 
13741154:Session said:
About halfway through. I can't stand your media player. But the skiing is sick. Music is great. Editing is good.

I'm just wondering how many kids I will see skiing with their coat open, and no goggles now. On a pow day.
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find me on the hill with my jacket open.

This is worth the two year wait.
 
I thought it was so HYPE! Skiing music and editing was dope. Felt like an OG ski movie which I haven't seen in a while, they have all gotten too complicated.
 
This movie's going down as one of my favorites in a LONG time. I'm talking way back to old Josh Berman films and Pep segments
 
Shit was refreshing to see a film with boarders and skiers just shredding together and having fun enjoying the sport we all love.
 
fuck yeah! loved the filming, editing and mostly the skiing. there was a bunch of LEGIT gnar AK lines that woulda have everybody on the TGR crew puckered. Fuck yeah, Thall got after it these past years!

Rad. super good and i want more!!!
 
13741177:grilled_cheese said:
I wonder if Tanner Hall's brain cell ever gets lonely. Sick movie though, haven't seen one like this in awhile
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You sir are a fuckwit.. Tanner is the man and he is actually quite a smart man in his own unique ways.. Go play in traffic..

Sick movie word up to John Spriggs my old team captain and all round legend he killed it so hard R.I.P Batalla
 
13741453:ozzywrong said:
You sir are a fuckwit.. Tanner is the man and he is actually quite a smart man in his own unique ways.. Go play in traffic..

Sick movie word up to John Spriggs my old team captain and all round legend he killed it so hard R.I.P Batalla
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Which leads me to something I need to ask. What will it take for Spriggs to get on some ski brand other than some fuckwit 2 seasons and done brand?
 
13741453:ozzywrong said:
You sir are a fuckwit.. Tanner is the man and he is actually quite a smart man in his own unique ways.. Go play in traffic..

Sick movie word up to John Spriggs my old team captain and all round legend he killed it so hard R.I.P Batalla
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True. Talked to Tanner a bit at First Chair Fest and it was very enlightening. He was buzzing real good, but still had some really good things to say. Speech he gave was great as well.

Also Batalla still owes me a pair of skis... or my money back. Id prefer the money at this point.

Loved the film, saw it at FCF and watched it again today. Such a good vibe and great film. A lot of people don't realize how hard it is to put together a project. Very well done. It was cool to talk to Tanner about some of the "behind the scene" stuff as well.
 
13741470:Session said:
Which leads me to something I need to ask. What will it take for Spriggs to get on some ski brand other than some fuckwit 2 seasons and done brand?
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Would love to see him on armada..blows my mind how he isn't on their team
 
Liked it! Only bit that was a bit off was when they decided it was a good idea to randomly switch it black and white and ramp the contrast.
 
Managed 8 mins this morning before work, even those 8 minutes restored my faith in snow films after the recent bouts of fail I have seen (into the mind, the fourth phase and the last few MSP ones).
 
I've already watched 5 times.... That was unreal, perfect mix of backcountry/jumps/etc...

is it just me or is the video player laggy as hell
 
Watched the whole thing yesterday. TBH it was a little underwhelming. Spriggs was the highlight for sure and the big mountain stuff was really good. But overall, the filming/editing was pretty low quality and there were way too many shots of Tanner doing pretty basic stuff in the trees without a lot of wow factor. Got very repetitive after a while. Also, Tanner has smoked himself retarded. Jesus Christ, he looks and sounds like a homeless person at this point.
 
13741502:Rosbif said:
Liked it! Only bit that was a bit off was when they decided it was a good idea to randomly switch it black and white and ramp the contrast.
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I actually thought it was pretty cool looking... but glad it was done sparingly.

Sam Cohen fucking slays, also. Holy dude man that was rad.
 
13741640:wricks said:
Watched the whole thing yesterday. TBH it was a little underwhelming. Spriggs was the highlight for sure and the big mountain stuff was really good. But overall, the filming/editing was pretty low quality and there were way too many shots of Tanner doing pretty basic stuff in the trees without a lot of wow factor. Got very repetitive after a while. Also, Tanner has smoked himself retarded. Jesus Christ, he looks and sounds like a homeless person at this point.
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Pretty much this . Couldn't get through the movie with him and how absolutely moronic he acts . How old are we now ? Kids spent .
 
13741640:wricks said:
Watched the whole thing yesterday. TBH it was a little underwhelming. Spriggs was the highlight for sure and the big mountain stuff was really good. But overall, the filming/editing was pretty low quality and there were way too many shots of Tanner doing pretty basic stuff in the trees without a lot of wow factor. Got very repetitive after a while. Also, Tanner has smoked himself retarded. Jesus Christ, he looks and sounds like a homeless person at this point.
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damn, hater much? let me know when you're doing all that at the age of 33 after breaking both your ankles and legs on separate occasions. He killed it.
 
Had to log in to call out wricks and pachanks for being fuckboyz. Did you miss things like tanner skiing massive alaskan faces, triggering avalanches, and then blasting through them with no fucks given?
 
13741750:CT_CREW said:
Had to log in to call out wricks and pachanks for being fuckboyz. Did you miss things like tanner skiing massive alaskan faces, triggering avalanches, and then blasting through them with no fucks given?
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I can watch countless skiers these days do the same and do it better without the jafaikan wigger acting.
 
13741719:.frenchy said:
damn, hater much? let me know when you're doing all that at the age of 33 after breaking both your ankles and legs on separate occasions. He killed it.
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Wasn't knocking tanner's skiing ability. I don't think anyone would dispute that he is one of a kind in that regard. I was talking about the movie as a whole.
 
13741750:CT_CREW said:
Had to log in to call out wricks and pachanks for being fuckboyz. Did you miss things like tanner skiing massive alaskan faces, triggering avalanches, and then blasting through them with no fucks given?
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Yes and if you had read my post you would've seen that I said the big mountain stuff was really good. The rest of the movie? Not so much.
 
Loved this movie. Not all shots were perfect, but you felt like you were right there with those guys. Wachs killed it and Sam Cohen absolutely slayed. Soundtrack was 10/10 for me. Definitely felt like an old school ski movie, and was the first in quite a few years that I immediately looped to rewatch.
 
Such a sick movie. The AK segments were $$$. Soundtrack on point. Its difficult to appreciate just how gnarly a lot of the tree skiing is, but they are bombing through the forest at crazy speed with large airs and pillows (much harder to ski than they look) thrown in. The level of precision it takes to not get broken off skiing like that is amazing
 
and here I was thinking slides in AK weren't very common due to the snow being constantly cold.

the skiing was unbelievable. Cohen absolutely slays AK. I really liked it, definitely reminded me of older ski movies.
 
13741750:CT_CREW said:
triggering avalanches
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Yeah.... And this is a good thing?

Huge Tanner fan, and I understand why you guys loved this, but my goat was not got. Honestly it made me feel a little sad.
 
Saw this at First Chair Festival, (when tanner went on rant about the ski movie industry), great movie, awesome to see some legit BC skiers like Todd skiing with the boyz
 
13741882:cydwhit said:
Yeah.... And this is a good thing?

Huge Tanner fan, and I understand why you guys loved this, but my goat was not got. Honestly it made me feel a little sad.
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yeah, but it's not like they were trying to trigger an avy though
 
Tanner Hall out here saying he's not done yet. When you're a good skier, aging only makes it better. Big ups for a real champ
 
13741873:VinnieF said:
and here I was thinking slides in AK weren't very common due to the snow being constantly cold.

the skiing was unbelievable. Cohen absolutely slays AK. I really liked it, definitely reminded me of older ski movies.
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If avalanches don't happen when it's constantly cold, why is the colorado snow pack and Continental packs in general so notoriously fragile? I would go the complete opposite way and say that generally warmer zones where the snow falls closer to 32 are less likely to slide (pnw).

I don't know that AK is less prone to avalanches or if the moisture content and nature of the precip itself makes snow cling to faces that otherwise wouldn't hold snow, again like colorado where the steepest faces don't hold snow.

Do you have any sources or good articles about AK snowpacks and overall trends? I'm curious to learn more.

Anecdotally, AK had more avalanches deaths this past year than colorado. Not that a single year proves a damn thing, but I'd have to imagine there's a hell of a lot more people skiing colorado (even out of bounds) than in AK. If i70 traffic and loveland pass and Berthoud pass on a Saturday are any indication.

To your point though, I was surprised by that segment too. Wonder if those shots were from the same day or same cycle. Seemed like the same day but could've just been how it was edited. If it was the same day...

All aside, liked the movie a lot, bigups to tanner and iberg.
 
13741991:casual said:
If avalanches don't happen when it's constantly cold, why is the colorado snow pack and Continental packs in general so notoriously fragile? I would go the complete opposite way and say that generally warmer zones where the snow falls closer to 32 are less likely to slide (pnw).

I don't know that AK is less prone to avalanches or if the moisture content and nature of the precip itself makes snow cling to faces that otherwise wouldn't hold snow, again like colorado where the steepest faces don't hold snow.

Do you have any sources or good articles about AK snowpacks and overall trends? I'm curious to learn more.

Anecdotally, AK had more avalanches deaths this past year than colorado. Not that a single year proves a damn thing, but I'd have to imagine there's a hell of a lot more people skiing colorado (even out of bounds) than in AK. If i70 traffic and loveland pass and Berthoud pass on a Saturday are any indication.

To your point though, I was surprised by that segment too. Wonder if those shots were from the same day or same cycle. Seemed like the same day but could've just been how it was edited. If it was the same day...

All aside, liked the movie a lot, bigups to tanner and iberg.
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It's higher moisture content snow that spackled to the super steep faces in AK. there are more deaths per slide in AK probably because the size and steepness are greater than anywhere. Also probly has a lot to do with the accepted level of risk for the i70 weekend warriors vs the AK slenecks and other AK folk.
 
siiick movie

loved how it ended and the skiing was really good

the first segment with all the avies popping was exciting and cool, but i cant say i support portraying the image that narrowly escaping avalanches is cool. i mean, it is cool lol, but you know what i mean. kids and impressionable adults watch this shit haha
 
13742004:californiagrown said:
It's higher moisture content snow that spackled to the super steep faces in AK. there are more deaths per slide in AK probably because the size and steepness are greater than anywhere. Also probly has a lot to do with the accepted level of risk for the i70 weekend warriors vs the AK slenecks and other AK folk.
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I agree with the moisture content piece for sure, but historically or even just over a ten year average, colorado has 2 x the avy deaths annually that AK has (or just under 2x, I think 6.2 co, vs 3.6 AK per dale Atkins), but I think that has to do with raw numbers of people in colorado.

I wonder about your last point though. I would guess (a true guess) that your average person skiing out of bounds in AK is better educated, and more experienced than the same in colorado. Then again, I live on the i70 corridor so, my opinion is probably based on the least capable and knowledgeable people here, might be pretty damn different elsewhere in co. With that, I would expect the dummies would be more ignorant to risks and would take more risks as a result.

Interesting stuff.

Sorry for thread derail, ring the alarm was sick. Ligare is a beast, tanner impressed the hell out of me, and spriggs is like jason vorhees, every time it seems like he's gone, he's right back.
 
13742018:casual said:
I agree with the moisture content piece for sure, but historically or even just over a ten year average, colorado has 2 x the avy deaths annually that AK has (or just under 2x, I think 6.2 co, vs 3.6 AK per dale Atkins), but I think that has to do with raw numbers of people in colorado.

I wonder about your last point though. I would guess (a true guess) that your average person skiing out of bounds in AK is better educated, and more experienced than the same in colorado. Then again, I live on the i70 corridor so, my opinion is probably based on the least capable and knowledgeable people here, might be pretty damn different elsewhere in co. With that, I would expect the dummies would be more ignorant to risks and would take more risks as a result.

Interesting stuff.

Sorry for thread derail, ring the alarm was sick. Ligare is a beast, tanner impressed the hell out of me, and spriggs is like jason vorhees, every time it seems like he's gone, he's right back.
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I think the mentality from folks in AK is different that of your typical weekend warrior in CO, combined with bigger mountains, larger storms, and more remote mtns equals more deaths.

The popular spots off i70 are very 'safe' as compared to the popular spots in AK.

That at least makes the most sense to me.
 
13741991:casual said:
If avalanches don't happen when it's constantly cold, why is the colorado snow pack and Continental packs in general so notoriously fragile? I would go the complete opposite way and say that generally warmer zones where the snow falls closer to 32 are less likely to slide (pnw).

I don't know that AK is less prone to avalanches or if the moisture content and nature of the precip itself makes snow cling to faces that otherwise wouldn't hold snow, again like colorado where the steepest faces don't hold snow.

Do you have any sources or good articles about AK snowpacks and overall trends? I'm curious to learn more.

Anecdotally, AK had more avalanches deaths this past year than colorado. Not that a single year proves a damn thing, but I'd have to imagine there's a hell of a lot more people skiing colorado (even out of bounds) than in AK. If i70 traffic and loveland pass and Berthoud pass on a Saturday are any indication.

To your point though, I was surprised by that segment too. Wonder if those shots were from the same day or same cycle. Seemed like the same day but could've just been how it was edited. If it was the same day...

All aside, liked the movie a lot, bigups to tanner and iberg.
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This isn't a good source at all, I'm sure there's a better one somewhere.

But the point it makes near the end is that for similar terrain AK is much safer than anywhere else. Like the guy says, the safe terrain you ski on a high risk day is way more steep then the safe terrain you'd ski elsewhere.

I have no idea why this is, but I thought it was because you don't get big temperature and humidity changes that causes hoar frost layers and such.

It is quite.interesting.

I'd love to ski AK. And it seems like the terrain I'd be comfortable skiing wouldn't be nearly.as risky as elsewhere. (I'd shit myself skiing some of those lines in the movie)
https://www.google.ca/url?q=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-gladwell/avalanches-in-paradise-an_b_7156376.html&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwjG-Y2yjP7PAhWj8oMKHS9nBMUQFggTMAM&sig2=6Y6iiZ1LlZR-L4sWFpK5qA&usg=AFQjCNFGb1fcUmRYz4F2W2Ww3B-VOI8X9g
 
13742141:VinnieF said:
This isn't a good source at all, I'm sure there's a better one somewhere.

But the point it makes near the end is that for similar terrain AK is much safer than anywhere else. Like the guy says, the safe terrain you ski on a high risk day is way more steep then the safe terrain you'd ski elsewhere.

I have no idea why this is, but I thought it was because you don't get big temperature and humidity changes that causes hoar frost layers and such.

It is quite.interesting.

I'd love to ski AK. And it seems like the terrain I'd be comfortable skiing wouldn't be nearly.as risky as elsewhere. (I'd shit myself skiing some of those lines in the movie)
https://www.google.ca/url?q=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-gladwell/avalanches-in-paradise-an_b_7156376.html&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwjG-Y2yjP7PAhWj8oMKHS9nBMUQFggTMAM&sig2=6Y6iiZ1LlZR-L4sWFpK5qA&usg=AFQjCNFGb1fcUmRYz4F2W2Ww3B-VOI8X9g
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A couple reasons: maritime snowpacks are heavy so they crush and or bond unstable layers quickly. It's rare to get any kind of long lasting instability. And also, really steep terrain slides naturally during storm events because it is so steep unstable snow cannot hold on.

So a 55 degree face is many times safer than a 45 degree face all other things equal. You also don't get nearly the solar effect at that high of a latitude etc.
 
The AK segment was burly.

That being said, I cringed the entire time I watched that. Face after face, completely propagating outward and setting off these huge slides.. A shot of one or two is reasonable, but I seriously think there were only 1-2 shots of someone riding a line that didn't fucking slide in that segment. In terms of setting a good example, he couldn't have done a worse job.

When kids watch this movie, seeing that will definitely rub off upon their decision making process, and with backcountry skiing growing in popularity more than ever before, I'm disappointed to see someone as widely renowned as Tanner including a segment along those lines. Yes, we get it, you're the Ski Boss and can outrun a slide, but the average skier would probably not be able to react the same way to an occurrence like that. In terms of avalanche terrain, assessing snow conditions is so important.. And not only that, they just keep flying up and riding shit on the same aspect.

People look up to you Tanner. But in the regards of avalanche safety, you need to set a better example.
 
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